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| The Unengaged President-Steyn |
| 2010-06-27 |
| What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they're both Democratic-party supporters. Or they were. Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general to be lost in combat while giving an interview to Rolling Stone: They'll be studying that one in war colleges around the world for decades. The executives of BP were unable to vote for Obama, being, as we now know, the most sinister duplicitous bunch of shifty Brits to pitch up offshore since the War of 1812. But, in their "Beyond Petroleum" marketing and beyond, they signed on to every modish nostrum of the eco-Left. Their recently retired chairman, Lord Browne, was one of the most prominent promoters of cap-and-trade. BP was the Democrats' favorite oil company. They were to Obama what Total Fina Elf was to Saddam. But what do McChrystal's and BP's defenestration tell us about the president of the United States? Barack Obama is a thin-skinned man and, according to Britain's Daily Telegraph, White House aides indicated that what angered the president most about the Rolling Stone piece was "a McChrystal aide saying that McChrystal had thought that Obama was not engaged when they first met last year." If finding Obama "not engaged" is now a firing offense, who among us is safe? |
| Posted by:Grinetle Slock2725 |
| #1 The left has Weigel, Yglesias, Cole, Klein, Rich, MoDo and Friedman but not one of them can write like Steyn. He's the only one we need to bring sanity to opinion and opinion to insanity. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2010-06-27 07:45 |